It’s certainly not what it used to be. College football national signing day used to be a national holiday for die-hard fans. It was one day in February, and it was awesome. Now? Wednesday marked the first day of a three-day window in which college football recruits from the 2026 class could sign, and there’s still the traditional national signing day to look ahead to in the future on Feb. 4. It’s not the same, but there were still some massive recruiting wins. There was a time when the idea of the Vanderbilt Commodores taking any recruit from the Georgia Bulldogs seemed propositional. A five-star quarterback, though? A quarterback ranked as the No. 1 overall recruit in the 2026 class? That would have been impossible. That’s what happened when Clark Lea and the Commodores flipped five-star quarterback Jared Curtis from Nashville, Tennessee, though. Lea may be building something special at Vandy, and all Curtis had to do was look at what Diego Pavia has done to see proof of concept. The USC Trojans may be a
